
STUDIES IN THE GOSPEL MESSAGE.
state that when the book of Daniel was translated into
Greek, the word used with which to translate the Hebrew
word represented by the English word "secret," was the
same as in the Greek New Testament is rendered " mys-
tery" in the expressions, " the mystery of the kingdom,"
"the mystery of God," "the mystery of the gospel," and
"the mystery of godliness." Now we have a definition
for "the mystery of godliness;" it is the union of divinity
with humanity. i Tim. 3:16. This is the wonderful pro-
vision of God to save man from perishing. John 3:16.
3.
In making known to Daniel the dream and its inter-
pretation, the God of heaven revealed the working of this
divine principle to establish the kingdom of heaven upon
the earth, and showed how that the world kingdoms one
after another, and finally all together, would perish because
of the rejection of this same divine principle.
4.
But this divine principle is the gift of God's life to
make men right in His sight, in order that by sharing His
righteousness they may share in His eternal existence.
This is justification by faith.
5.
The real thing, then, which is set forth in this chapter
is justification by faith, not as an abstract teaching, but in
its concrete outworking in the history of the world. This
will appear more fully in the next lesson.
6.
When it was put to the test, the religion of Babylon,
the wisdom of its wise men, failed because they did not
believe that the gods dwell with flesh. The religion of
Jerusalem, as represented in Daniel, the wisdom which is
from above, met the same test, because Daniel knew the
experience of justification by faith, the great truth of
Christianity that God does dwell with flesh.
Prayerfully consider the unentered fields.